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Kenya: Suspect Is Sought in Blast

Kenyan authorities were looking for several people who they believe planted a homemade bomb at a crowded market in Nairobi on Monday. Originally, the police said that the explosion, which injured more than 30 people but killed no one, was caused by an electrical malfunction. But on Wednesday, Kenya’s largest newspaper, The Daily Nation, published a mug shot of a foreign terrorism suspect who the police say has extensive bomb-making experience and recently entered the country from Somalia. Kenya has suffered several relatively small bomb attacks since it sent forces into Somalia in October to fight the Shabab, a militant Islamist group.

A version of this brief appears in print on May 31, 2012, on Page A11 of the New York edition with the headline: Kenya: Suspect Is Sought in Blast. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe